Sunday, March 29, 2015

After I finished inking this piece in pen & Ink, I decided to paint some water colors over it. Rarely do I get to paint with watercolors, so this was a good exercise. I like to do more commission pieces like these where I get to ink and add watercolor to them.

Then I move onto faces and hands which I feel should always be precisely inked. Various tech pens, microns, quills and brushes. Starting with Silver Surfer's face.

Then Silver Surfers right hand.

then his left hand.

Then Galactus' face.

Then I'll start tapering lines

Here's where I start inking the edges of the black areas with a brush. Also used a quill and brush for single lines. Marking areas with an "X" to come back later after erasing.

Close up scan of Silver Surfer during this process...

And Galactus' face

After all the pencils are erased and areas spotted with blacks, it's pretty much done.

Here's another photo from a different angle.

But I'm not quite finished yet. Next step is adding more stuff on my own because there's a lot of empty space in the background that the penciller left blank.

Added a couple of planets and some black with stars in the background.

This planet was strategically placed just so I can keep the pencillers signature away from the black with stars and more ledgeable on the planet. I squeeze my signature right underneath.

Added Galactus' left shoulder pad right above his left ear. Then I went back and beefed up some line weights some more, to pop things forward. Finally re-spotted all the back areas again to give it a rich dark black.